Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

NO VEHICLE may be used to transport masked or facially disguised masqueraders unless a licence has been issued by the senior superintendent or superintendent of police in the division where the vehicle owner resides. This was stipulated in the 2025 Carnival regulations under Legal Notice No 34, issued on February 3. Vehicle owners must apply […]

CARIBBEAN Airlines (CAL) has rubbished rumours suggesting issues with its flights departing from Miami and Orlando in Florida to Piarco. Dionne Ligoure, CAL’s head of corporate communications, confirmed on February 3 that there was no merit to the claims. “People are making mischief,” she told Newsday in a brief conversation. “Our flights have NO ISSUES.” […]

and Ryan Hamilton-Davis MINISTER of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young has sought to clarify recent news of a deal with Jamaica’s refinery Petrojam Ltd by Paria Fuel Trading to secure marine fuel for bunkering in Trinidad and Tobago, saying the country has always imported fuel for marine sale. Young spoke to reporters on February […]

NO cricketing talent in the region will go unnoticed. Cricket West Indies (CWI) director of cricket Miles Bascombe made the promise on February 3 as the regional body announced a new data-driven scouting system. He said more scouts on the ground attending matches and training sessions, to garner information on players. In a media release, […]

STUART YOUNG hopes to unite young and old when he becomes Prime Minister to take the country into the future. He made this declaration while addressing the inaugural class of the National Energy Skills Centre Technical Institute’s (NESC-TI) Renewable Energy Technology Services Scholarship programme on February 3. During his speech, Young urged the dozen students […]

YOUNG PEOPLE from across the nation filled the Queen’s Park Savannah with the stirring sounds of steel at the Junior Panorama finals on February 2. The competition saw participants from 12 primary schools, ten secondary schools and twelve 21-and-under steelbands vie for the top prize. San Fernando Boys’ RC School won the primary school category […]

COMMISSIONER of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher has been suspended from office pending the outcome of a criminal probe into the acquisition of two sniper rifles for the Strategic Services Agency. Harewood-Christopher was not fired, contrary to other media reports. On January 31, while in custody Harewood-Christopher was served with a notice of her suspension by the […]

On Thursday, the Finance Ministry announced it would offer a six per cent increase to UWI lecturers for the six-year period from August 2014-July 2020. The offer sits between the government’s initial offer of four per cent and the West Indies Group of University Teachers’ (WIGUT) counterproposal of ten per cent. The increase came after […]

Debbie Jacob IN MY laundry list for education that I wrote about in last week’s column, I mentioned the importance of having service learning in all TT schools. Some people asked for more information on this and wanted to know the difference between volunteering and service learning. Simply put, volunteering is the act of giving […]

Austin Fido I SPEND a lot of time watching people be Angry Online about politics. Very often, I watch people be Angry Online about TT politics. Not too long ago, I watched a master of this particular genre rile himself about Stuart Young’s elevation to prime-minister-in-waiting. Young cannot be made PM just so, argued Angry […]